Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 23. Estimate $1250.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Cantiaci. Dubnovellaunos. Circa 25-10 BC. AV Stater (5.40 gm). Serpent Type. Plain obverse with shallow banding / Spritely horse galloping right with beaded mane, bucranium, two pellets and ringed-pellet above, serpent below, pellet triad in front, [DVBNOVELL]AVNO[S] around. Hobbs 2492-96; Van Arsdell 169; SCBC 177. CCI 96.3435. Good VF, neat flan of pale rose-gold with satin-like surfaces, sharp horse. Rare. ($1250)

Found near Aylesham, Kent, Spring 1994.

Evans described the reverse as “a horse at liberty” (The coins of the ancient Britons, 1864, pg. 203).